🇬🇧American Couple Reacts "Every British Constituent Country,Territory,& Crown Dependency EXPLAINED" 

I'm Canadian 🇨🇦 and we're part of the Commonwealth, but we are independent of Britain.

Britain made the modern world. He is completely wrong about the three Crown Dependencies. They are under the Crown, but are not part of the UK. However, the UK provides their defense and manages their foreign affairs.

He didn't mention the celtic population within England, known as Cornwall (the pointy bit on the bottom left part of England), they aren't English in genealogy but are geographically, they even have their own language known as Cornish

Almost nobody in the UK knows most of this stuff. Anybody who absorbed this video already knows more than 99%+ of the UK's population.

Sandwich comes from a british name before the food existed

England is essentially celtic too. The celts in England didn't just disappear into the ether.

In the UK each nation (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) have their own education systems and can differ by a fair bit such as Scotland having free University education as long as you have been living in Scotland for 5 years prior while England charges thousands for the same education. In terms of state schools, the active days will be around 190 days each year but this does differ due to national holidays and holiday dates and periods being different between each.

8:30 - It is not true that you can travel inside the European Union without a passport. Note that some (not all) European countries issue identity cards as well as passports, and inside the European Union you can always use them instead. (This is what is different about an identity card: 1. It's credit card sized. 2. Not every country outside the EU accepts every country's identity cards as equivalent to passports. 3. There is no way to put a visa or entry/exit stamps on an identity card.) Here is how it really works: 1. The area of (almost) passport free travel is not the EU but the Schengen Area. (Even that is technically speaking wrong, because Ireland is technically part of the Schengen Area but only of schemes such as police cooperation and not of the passport-free travel scheme. Let's just pretend they are not in the Schengen Area, as people usually do.) That's only approximately the same thing. The differences: - 4 EU member states are not in the Schengen Area, or not part of the passport-free travel scheme: Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, Ireland. - The 4 EFTA countries are members of the Schengen Area with passport-free travel, without being EU members: Iceland , Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. - 4 EU members and Norway have certain weird parts of their territories excluded from the Schengen Area. Fortunately (and not by accident) this mostly affects areas outside Europe, e.g. in North America (Greenland), in the Caribbean or in Northern Africa. 2. When crossing a national border between Schengen Area member states, you must have your passport (or identity card) with you, even if you are an EU citizen. Getting caught without a passport is _usually_ not treated as a big deal, but penalties of thousands of Euros are possible if you are unlucky or uncooperative. 3. When crossing a border between Schengen members, you will not usually be asked to show your passport. However, a) systematic passport controls are allowed temporarily in certain specific situations (at the moment, Germany tends to abuse this on some of its borders), b) some _customs_ controls (for goods) still exist when crossing the EU/EFTA border, and c) the Schengen members are allowed to make random inspections _near_ the border (Germany is abusing this as well, e.g. by checking everyone on most trains near the German-Czech border). 4. With rare exceptions, when you get a visa for a Schengen member state, it is actually a Schengen visa and valid for the entire Schengen area. However, it is still possible (though rare) to be legally present in one Schengen member state without having the right to visit other Schengen member states. Then you need to obtain a Schengen visa first. In many cases you are unlikely to be caught if you break this rule locally (walking to the part of the town that is in another Schengen state), but you may get into serious trouble _if_ you are caught breaking it. I think the situation with the US and Canada is somewhat similar. As I understand it, they have some border crossings without passport control and I think crossing the border outside an official crossing is legal if you have your passport with you and it is legal for you to enter the other country. They are just more _likely_ to control passports at the border, and to go ballistic if they catch you crossing without carrying yours.

I'm in Scotland and school year runs usually 2/3rd week in August until beginning July. You don't need a passport for domestic flights (can use a driving licence etc), but you do to go overseas. X

With regard to needing passports when outside the UK visiting oversees territories it depends. When in Spain and going to visit Gibraltar we were advised to bring our passports just in case. When we got to Gibraltar from Spain on the coach we were told to have our passports ready because they might want to check them. Fortunately, they didn't bother. So it all depends on the day, where you're coming from and who's doing the checking and what the situation is like on the day and who you're travelling with etc. This was post-Brexit also.

Bit dissapointed he didn't bring it up but there are two commonwealths, the commonwealth realm and the commonwealth though I'm glad he said the commonwealth realm, so he hopefully is aware of the difference. Commonwealth is a collection of countries that used to be british colonies, that are together to basically help us get along and promote peace, there is 54 members. Commonwealth realm does the same thing apart from the fact to be a member you HAVE to recognise the queen- now king, as your head of state despite having little power over you. I personally think the commonweath is better than the commonweath realm, there is 15 countries apart of the commonwealth realm. While in the Commonwealth, you do not need to have the monarch as head of state.

England are celtic as well but the language died out due to being invaded

We had more when we had our empire, Biggest empire in history 🇬🇧

Isle of man is also a tax haven where people like to do grey business for tax purposes 😂 also in Wales they kids learn welsh at school

I'm English but live in France. In the UK we do not have Identity cards which means we use our passports heavily. OK if I'm in London and want to drive to Cardif in Wales or Glasgow in Scotland I don't need my passport there will be no border check and if stopped by the police for any reason I would have my driving license. However traveling anywhere that requires a plane or ship you have to prove your identity. For the British that means you take your passport. Now you mentioned Gibraltar. I have visited Gibraltar. The border between Gibraltar and Spain is half way down the runway. So when the plane lands or takes off you have been in Spain and Gibraltar. So take a passport.

Mandatory School is 5-16 years. It runs 13 weeks per term and each half term is punctuated by a school holiday (every approx. 6 weeks). Most are a week up to the summer break of 6 weeks. Or at least that's what it used to be...

It's Pitcairn Islands not as the graphic showed and as he wrongly pronounced it 'Pitcarin' - that must have been a misprint/typo that he's followed through on!

England has Celtic in is roots as well, I don't know why people forget this, the same is true for most of Western Europe.

It's true you don't need a passport to go through the EU but you always have from the UK as we are an island and not part of mainland Europe. Also we are no longer a member of the eu

Scotland also prints its own money. It is printed by the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Bank of Scotland and the Clydesdale bank. They are still pounds sterling, but the notes from each bank have a different design. In England only the Bank of England prints notes. All notes are valid across the UK, but not many Scottish issued notes come into circulationand work their way across the whole UK, so many people in othe parts of the UK may never have seen a Clydesdale Bank note. I appreciate why its irritating in Scotland when people ask for Bank of England notes in their change, and why they get irritated that the Scottish notes are often questioned elsewhere when they use them to pay for gooda and services.

Northern Ireland, a little bit more complicated particularly since the UK has left the EU and Northern Ireland has stayed in the EU trading partnership. As of now, the Catholic population would be regarded as Irish Republicans who want to join the free state.(that’s a generalization.) British nationalist who want to stay part of the Uk . (this is also a generalization.) When Ireland and the UK belong to the EU, there was no issue. Most people got their passports, according to whether they were nationalist or Republicans. Northern Ireland voted to stay in the EU whereas England voted to leave. Now the issue is there cannot be a hard border between Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland , so now Northern Ireland is staying part of the EU common market. But you cannot travel on a UK passport as easily as you used to since you’re no longer part of the EU so many nationalist in Northern Ireland now have Irish passport because they want to be able to travel freely with in the EU. Remember before the Good Friday agreement which allowed people to choose whether they were Irish or British, there was a hard border that separated the north from the south. That border has been removed and has been relative peace for 25 years. In the 1960s. Catholics started holding civil rights marches because they were denied housing work and they’re districts are all gerrymandered. Northern Ireland was created to be a state where are protestants were always in the majority. Catholics faced a civil rights movement on the civil rights movement of Martin Luther King. Now having said all that we have the Good Friday agreement relative peace for 25 years. CatholIcs are now the majority in northern Ireland. I see the island uniting economically first, and then eventually politically. That’s the long and short answer of how people pick their passports

5:41 Bilingual does not mean that you can speak two languages. Bilingual means that you learn two languages ​​from birth, e.g. If you were born in Germany as an American, then you usually learn English and German and can speak both fluently and fluently, and that's why it's bilingual, and the brain structure is also completely different, which pleases, and it also promotes the intellectual think. Just because you speak two languages ​​and have learned them at some point in your life doesn't mean you're bilingual. And in Europe, pretty much everyone speaks at least two languages, and most even speak three languages.

Sandwich is actually a town in England and where the sandwich you eat gets its name.

The information regarding the sovereign base area in cyprus is incorrect. The sba is the old colony of cyprus, and the sba is not just the two large british bases but also thousands of smaller locations, some being as small as a flat

You do need a passport for the European Union, but you dont need a Visa. You can just enter without any extra border checks

Just as an answer to schooling we don't really teach that this sort of thing in school, we have history and geography, but we mainly learn about other countries, we don't really need to know most of what was in that video apart from what countries make up the UK

With Northern Ireland you have two major communities, Unionist (UK) and Nationalist (Ireland) which one would have that passport, unless they classify themselves other/both.

If you are from the Uk the travel within the EU without a passport thing is a myth. Everyone in the UK was required to take their passport when travelling, and YES it was checked at the point of Entry to Europe, Never after that until leaving to come back to the UK. These are the countrys I have travelled to whilst the UK was part of the EU, and every one required a passport to enter from Enghland : Luxemburg, Spain, Portugal, France (especially France), Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Austria, Holland (the Netherlands), Italy, and Sweden.

I know if your British or Irish you can travel to each others countries without a password but I don't know about the other British Overseas Territories

I’m from Bermuda am I live i England, you don’t need a visa to travel but we need our passport

Imagine being born 51 years ago, all innocent and happy-go-lucky, in an ancient, quiet, safe and insulated little town in the south east of England and then gradually, as you grow up, having to adjust to all this shit as knowledge piled upon knowledge led to a sense that the world didn't really dig you all that much. What did I do?! It was surprising. It is irritating. 51 years later and I have no idea what to think about my own country (the UK) apart from the very strong feeling that, somehow, I definitely missed the historical boat!

A quarter of the Welsh population speak Welsh as a first language and more or less 90 percent have some ability in the Welsh language. Wales is a bilingual country with both languages having equal status in law. Welsh is a Celtic language with no connection to English wich is an Anglo Saxon / Germanic language.

Im british yes u need a passport u just dont need a visa

Most UK citizens have passports because we get to travel quite a lot for holidays in Warmer places in the Mediterranean region, so it makes sense even if we travel to say Jersey or Gibraltar to take your passport in case you get to go in to Spain or your flight gets diverted, Most of us would jump at the chance to hold an EU passport as well as a UK passport simply to be able to live, work and travel freely in Europe, but it isn’t too important

We need a passport to travel in Europe as well as flying anywhere even in the uk,but a visa is not needed

English has basically been set as buisness language around the world thanks to British Empire, I would love to have been born in Gibraltar, access to Spanish language aswell as English would be very beneficial knowing two languages

I'm from Wales, and yes we fought to keep our native language, culture etc. We now have compulsory Welsh language lessons in school's to keep the language alive and well. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. Welsh is our first language, English is our second language.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 although the UK aren't in the European Union, we are still classed as a part of Europe.

When I was at school back in the early 1980s for my first 2 years the history was just general stuff Vikings, Anglo Saxons and romans etc from the 3rd year onwards you could pick which history you wanted to study. I picked Modern History which focused on British history 1900-1979. School year in England starts at the beginning of September and ends at the end of the July The other countries do it a bit different.

Yes you need passport to leave uk!! To any European country! This also applies within uk Unless your travelling by road, train or boat! But I’f your catching a flight from Scotland to England yes you will need passport x

EVERYONE in UK has a passport from age 16 and we use it but don't have to queue in any territory including Hawaii. Just hold it up and you're given free passage and waved through customs.

you need a passport but not a visa

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8:27 In the 21st century there shouldn't be more colonies of other states anywhere in the world, no matter what shape or how small.